Echo

Question 1

“Come to me in the silence of the night;”

Answer 1

• Anaphora - need and desparation for a loved one = suppressed passion that she is letting loose.
• Repetition - appropriately like an echo. Demanding the presence of unavailable lover
• ‘Night’ - often associated with feelings of sadness or sexual yearning.

Question 2

“Come in the _______ silence of a _______;”

Answer 2

“Come in the speaking silence of a dream;”

Question 3

“Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;”

Answer 3

• The protaganists love is kind and warm-hearted
• Pure lyricism - merges the beloved with the beauty of the natural environment
• Innocence of love and angel babies

Question 4

“Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.”

Answer 4

• Sigh of passion or pain
• One sided, love is unreciprocated
• All intangible, no physical reminders of him

Question 5

“Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,”

Answer 5

• Protagonist’s realisation that their view of their lover was a dream and the past can’t be recaptured
• “Dream” - ignorance of reality. Liminal state.
• Becomes sour, reflective of the stages in earthly love and relationships
• Talking to her dream- dissolution
• Tractarian beliefs- the heart deceives above all

Question 6

“Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,”

Answer 6

• Protagonist’s realisation that their view of their lover was a dream and the past can’t be recaptured
• “Dream” - ignorance of reality. Liminal state.
• Becomes sour, reflective of the stages in earthly love and relationships
• Talking to her dream- dissolution
• Tractarian beliefs- the heart deceives above all

Question 7

“Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,”

Answer 7

• Protagonist’s realisation that their view of their lover was a dream and the past can’t be recaptured
• “Dream” - ignorance of reality. Liminal state.
• Becomes sour, reflective of the stages in earthly love and relationships
• Talking to her dream- dissolution
• Tractarian beliefs- the heart deceives above all

Question 8

“Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,”

Answer 8

• Protagonist’s realisation that their view of their lover was a dream and the past can’t be recaptured
• “Dream” - ignorance of reality. Liminal state.
• Becomes sour, reflective of the stages in earthly love and relationships
• Talking to her dream- dissolution
• Tractarian beliefs- the heart deceives above all